carl? >> reporter: hi, megyn. a couple hundred miles away and very much focused on what's happening with the democratic national convention. today the republican running mate paul ryan will be having an event near greenville. we're in the middle of the introductions now, and you can expect him to immediately go after democrats and the obama administration for their inability over the weekend to answer with a straight yes or no the question of whether you're better off now than you were four years ago. it was the democratic mayor of maryland, martin o'malley, who said now, and then this morning top aides came forward and said, well, absolutely things are better. republicans are going to say it's clearly an example of democrats not knowing where the economy is, and republicans will argue that democrats are out of touch. there is a poll out now by the associated press that suggests that by a better than 2 to 1 margin most americans think they are about where they were four years ago or that things are worse whereas 2